Man Gets One Year In Jail After 11th DUI Arrest Prosecutor: He is perhaps the most dangerous driver Worcester County has. Shawn J. Soper, News Editor SNOW HILL -- A Selbyville man, characterized by prosecutors this week as “perhaps the most dangerous driver” in Worcester County, was found guilty of driving while impaired this week and sentenced to one year in jail for his 11th drunk-driving arrest. A Worcester County Circuit Court jury deliberated for about a half an hour on Wednesday before returning a guilty verdict for driving while impaired for Gerald Lusby, 42, of Selbyville. The jury had the option of convicting Lusby on the lesser driving while impaired charge or driving under the influence, a more serious offense that carries stiffer penalties in terms of jail time, fines and probation. What the jury did not know and could not have known when it went back to deliberate is that it was Lusby’s 11th drunk-driving arrest in a span dating back to 1991. After the jury returned the guilty verdict for driving while impaired, Executive Assistant State’s Attorney William McDermott made that information available just prior to the sentencing phase. “He is perhaps the most dangerous driver Worcester County has,” McDermott told Judge Thomas C. Groton prior to sentencing. “The minute he’s incarcerated, Worcester County is a safer place, which is why we’re asking for the maximum of one year.” Lusby’s defense attorney Richard Parolski told the judge a maximum jail sentence left no room for addiction treatment and other counseling for his client and urged a lesser sentence with provisions for treatment included. However, Groton, after hearing Lusby’s litany of priors, was in no mood for leniency. “He has demonstrated that is never going to happen,” he said. “I have no confidence he will ever do that. The only thing to do is keep Mr. Lusby off the road for as long as possible.” What appeared on the surface to be a rather mundane drunk-driving trial lasted around three hours as McDermott and Parolski sparred over the nuances of suspected drunk-driving stops and subsequent roadside tests. The OCPD officer who pulled over Lusby and ultimately arrested him was on the witness stand for hours as Parolski attempted, successfully to some degree, to punch holes in the officer’s version of the facts of the case. More: click below
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 18:43:25 +0000
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